I'll be posting about the theme throughout the month on the blog to help keep you inspired. You can use the posts here for jumping off points or interpret the theme in your own creative way. If you need some suggestions, here are a few ideas to get you started. You could:

*What is the color of passion? Mix a color and paint with it.

*Write freely about your passions.

*Cook a passion-filled meal. Serve it to someone you love.

*Move with passion as you create.

*Try doing everything with passion for one day.

*Share your favorite passions with someone else. Teach them what you love about it.

*Return to the things you were passionate about as a child.

*Express your passion for a loved one in a piece of art.

*What are you most passionate about? How can you have more of it in your life?

How to use the CED themes:

If you're feeling creatively stuck or blocked at any point during the month, use the theme as a source of inspiration to get you moving. Feel free to focus on the theme in your creative activities for the entire month or as much as you'd like.

Using the theme is entirely optional for CED participants. Use it if it inspires you, ignore it if it doesn't. I'll be sharing posts throughout the month around the theme (among other things) to get you thinking about how to incorporate it into your life. I'd love to hear how you use the theme in your creative world.

And have fun with it!

Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted... unbidden... it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us... passion rules us all, and we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... and the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion maybe we'd know some kind of peace... but we would be hollow... Empty rooms shuttered and dank. Without passion we'd be truly dead. ~Joss Whedon

I love the theme! I will participate for the first time now. The theme sounds great… I can’t wait to start. Thanks for the suggestions. I’m looking forward to share my passions and to see the results of you all.

I haven’t been posting here but I have been creating every day. Sometimes it’s writing, sometimes cooking and always visual art. I am also trying to sculpt a new body. Passion is certainly a good theme. I will embrace that.

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just starting today, but passion is such a cool focus even if only for a week. So I’m jumping in right here, right now. Passion fuels me, it gives me the momentum to be a wife, a mom, a daughter, a sister, and a friend. I know that without passion, I would never be able to accomplish all that I do. My passion is to live for Christ and it is my fuel for life.